Weekly Attendance for Year Groups – Tuesday 9th April – Friday 12th April
Reception/Beech: 94.58%
Year 1/Chestnut: 97.41%
Year 2/Elm: 99%
Year 3/Hazel: 99.14%
Year 4/Sycamore: 94.35%
Year 5/Oak: 97.73%
Year 6/Willow: 93.15%
Weekly Attendance for Year Groups – Tuesday 9th April – Friday 12th April
Reception/Beech: 94.58%
Year 1/Chestnut: 97.41%
Year 2/Elm: 99%
Year 3/Hazel: 99.14%
Year 4/Sycamore: 94.35%
Year 5/Oak: 97.73%
Year 6/Willow: 93.15%
Welcome back for the Summer term! Only this term to go until the children are in Year 6!
We have made a great start to this week though looking at angles in Maths. The children have found out the different types of angles, classified them and even practiced measuring them using protractors.
In English, we have made a start to our debate writing. We began by looking at a debate, which was trying to persuade the BBC to create a Match of the Day programme for women’s football. We picked this apart and discussed the persuasive language being used. This week, we have written a debate about whether children should have to wear school uniform. The children came up with some great ideas, whilst using rhetorical questions to address the reader and keep them hooked. Next week, we will be developing our debate writing skills and posing the question ‘Should animals be kept in zoos?’.
In the afternoons, we have started our new topic on Ancient Maya. We kicked off the week by looking at the continents North and South America and narrowing down in Central America where the Mayans lived.
Our Golden Certificate this week is Karla! She made a fantastic effort to find the Mayan cities and locate these on her map in Geography and History. Well Done Karla!
Have a great weekend
Miss Hipkiss, Miss Harris and Miss Davies
What a busy spring term we have had! The children have worked hard to retain facts that they have been taught in all their subjects. They have enjoyed learning about Charles Darwin and the Galapagos Islands. We researched about hot and cold countries including what it is like to live there. Their knowledge of wild and garden plants is growing and we will continue our work about plants into next term. As the weather warms we will be planting lots of flowers, fruit and vegetables.
Everyone’s reading is improving as we develop our phonic knowledge. Phase 5 is quite tricky as there are lots of ways to make the same sound. Our group reading sessions use books and resources from Little Wandle. On Thursdays, children will bring home a copy of the book that they have read in class that week. They must return this the following Thursday in order to take home the new book. We have a limited amount of books so we need to take good care of them. They will continue to bring home a matched Phonics Bug book to support their reading. This can be changed more regularly than once a week. We encourage children to read a book more than once to develop their fluency. Ask your child to read out loud as if they are performing. This will improve their expression and reading to the punctuation. Not all children need to point to each word any more!
The children have really enjoyed the variety of books that we have studied in our English lessons. They love listening to stories and pretending to be the characters in our Hot Seating sessions! Some of the questions and answers are very original and they are having to improvise a lot more.
In maths, they are beginning to multiply by making equal groups and then using repeated addition to find the total. Most children can count forwards in 2s, 5s and 10s. However, all need more help to do this backwards!
Over the Easter break, please start to introduce your child to o’clock and half past using a clock with hands. Most of the clocks we see around our homes are moving to digital: Alexa, phones, tablets, microwave… we still need to learn how to read the time on an analogue clock!
Here is the overview for next term:
Summer 1 Year 1 Curriculum Map
Have wonderful Easter!
Mrs Dowell, Mrs Armstrong and Mrs Savory.
Another term in year 3 completed and the children have worked incredibly hard, in all areas – well done Hazel Class! This week we have been completing lots of reading quizzes and trying hard to practice our times tables.
Today at swimming we had great success in swimming 25 meters on our fronts and backs. All the children have loved our swimming sessions, they have improved greatly in their ability and confidence.
Please see our next terms overview which is attached.
Enjoy the Easter break and please remember to read, read, read!
Miss Roberts
What a super week we have had and a fab day to end the term with everyone dressed as their favourite characters and sharing their favourite stories. Please make sure you check out the pictures on Tapestry from today. If you are unable to access your Tapestry account please let me know via the class email beech@crowmoorschool.co.uk and I will do my best to resolve that for you.
We have completed phonics assessments this week and I am really pleased with the progress the children are making and how hard they are trying to build their fluency and learn their tricky words. Please don’t forget they have access to the Big Cat ebooks online at Collins Ebooks (collinsopenpage.com) using the logins that were sent home earlier this term. If you need a reminder of this please let me know.
In Maths we have been learning about shapes, talking about 2D and 3D shapes and their properties. The children have been trying hard to use the correct mathematical language to describe them such as ‘flat face’ and ‘curved surface’. They have also been working on continuing and creating more complex patterns.
Next term our theme is Under the Sea. Details can be found here: Beech Class Information Page if you scroll towards the bottom. You will also find a number of useful websites and other useful information on that page.
Please remember it is really important for the children to still keep reading and practicing their sounds and tricky words over the holidays. Just a few minutes a day can make all the difference.
Have a lovely couple of weeks – hopefully the weather will be kind!
See you bright and early on the 9th of April!
Miss Jones & Mrs Kenny
Good afternoon and happy Easter holidays.
It’s been a short but busy Spring term.
Yesterday, the children made their own Stone Age Clothing and showed off their sewing skills.
The children have loved our book ‘Rumaysa’ in our reading sessions and we have finished reading it this week. In our writing sessions, we have been looking at haikus. We talked about syllables and found the features of this type of poem before having a go at writing our own.
We’ve ended our week looking at place value and partiting decimals in maths.
Our Golden certificate week is Tristan. He’s been trying hard in class and working more independently in our maths lessons.
We hope you all manage to have some rest over the Easter Holidays and the children come back recharged and ready for the Summer term.
Mrs Fairclough and Mrs Brunyard
Good afternoon,
Wow this term seems to have raced by. I have been really impressed with the children’s effort and focus; I hope this continues after Easter.
We have finished the term with the children demonstrating their descriptive vocabulary in English and statistical understanding in maths. In geography we have discussed the physical and human impact on the landscape, thinking ahead to what might happen in the future. The children have also really got to grips with our Anglo-Saxon, Scots and Vikings unit in history and I am sure they will enjoy next term’s topic on Ancient Greece.
One child who has done particularly well this term and is growing from strength to strength and is our Golden Certificate winner is Isobel – congratulations.
As a class we have managed to reach out target of 4,000,000 words read, which is a great achievement. Please encourage the children to keep up the reading over the Easter break.
We hope you all have a great two weeks,
Mr Reynolds, Miss Nicholas and Mrs Davies
Hey!
Happy Easter everyone! Another successful term in Elm class. So proud of how hard the children have been working.
It has been a busy week this week, finishing off our topics and assessing the children’s maths and literacy skills. The children have all done really well and have impressed us with their own version of ‘Three Billy Goats Gruff’.
After half term, PE will go back to being on a Tuesday and Thursday. PE kit is only to be worn on those days and full school uniform on other days.
Can you please be encouraging your child to read every night, it is imperative to their academic success. The more they read, the more fluent they become and the more they can access across the curriculum. In the words of Dr. Suess… “The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.”
Please see attached the curriculum overview for Summer 1.
Summer 1 Year 2 Curriculum Map (1)
Well done to Nellie, who is our golden certificate winner. She has settled in to life at Crowmoor fantastically and is a great addition to Elm class.
Make sure you don’t eat too much chocolate! Have lots of fun and relax.
See you back on Tuesday 9th April 🙂
Miss Shadbolt. Mrs E and Miss Nicholas.
We have come to the end of another term!
This week has been assessment week, where the children have all tried really hard to showcase the progress they have made so far this year.
Today, the children have worked as a whole class to create a wonderful Spring poem!
Our Golden Certificate Winner this week is Omar! He has tried really hard during his assessments and achieved an amazing score on his Maths arithmetic test! Well Done!
Please find next half-terms overview below:
Have a great Easter break!
Miss Hipkiss and Miss Harris
Weekly Attendance figures for all Classes from Friday 15th March – Thursday 21st March
Beech: 94.33%
Chestnut: 94.16%
Elm: 91.47%
Hazel: 96.07%
Sycamore: 90%
Oak: 92.20%
Willow: 90.97%